Milk subscription rates and publishing notices
Subscription rates listed for Milk near Washington Street include One Year nine pounds, Six Months four dollars and fifty cents, Three Months two dollars and twenty five cents, One Month seventy five cents. Daily rates show One Year one dollar fifty. Notices warn manuscripts not to be returned and require full name and address for all communications. News agency details include 140 Nassau Street and manager Ernest F Brournham. Washington office at 515 Fourteenth Street.
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Washington
Fourteenth Street
Doston West Belgian International Exposition Opens in Brussels
The Belgian international exposition opening in Brussels in May 1888 offers American manufacturers a prime chance to display products under favorable conditions. The projected scale is liberal and government plans for judging entries are thorough and complete, with attractions that promise wide European participation in exhibits and visitors. This is the year's only major international exhibition, adding special interest.
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Brussels
Portuguese Fishermen on Long Island Removals Spar Over Compensation
The passage discusses evicted Portuguese fishermen on Long Island, their claims of livelihood loss, and questions whether the city offered adequate compensation. It notes their demand for recognition of rights, questions about government authority, and mentions an impending mayoral hearing on the Portuguese vice consul’s remonstrance.
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Long Island
Campaign swings Grand Army of the Republic into Ohio politics
The piece notes Democratic hopes to keep the Grand Army of the Republic from being used as a campaign tool in Ohio. It cites Governor Foraker altering pension and rebel flag resolutions by courting soldiers unions and G A R influence, with Democrats wary of partisanship undermining the G A R. General Power is listed as the Democratic candidate and a soldier, which may counteract such use.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Ohio
Hamilton
Republican Committee
Foraker
Criticism Looms Over City of Montreal Fire Response
The British board of trade will conduct an inquiry into discipline on the burned steamer City of Montreal and the failure to extinguish the blaze. Officers and crew are praised apart from the boat that escaped. The piece urges curbs on inflammable cargo on passenger Atlantic steamers and notes cotton’s fire risk.
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City of Montreal
British Board of Trade
Atlantic
Montreal
The League and the Liberals
Mr Gladstone aims to use the crimes act clause to nullify the proclamation of any association and will bring forward a motion in parliament seeking the Crown’s action.
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Gladstone
Movement Inside and Outside Parliament Signals Possible Censure Vote
The piece discusses a possible censure vote on the ministry driven by external currents and Sir Grovor Trevelyan. It notes Unionists fear dissolving elections, while Liberal pressure grows. It warns that even a ministry win could provoke further trouble as the National League faces legal scrutiny and potential Irish secretary hazards.
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Grovor Trevelyan
Lord Salisbury
National League
League
New Party's Platform Sees Education Through Politics Debated
The New York Tribune critiques Henry Groven's entry into state politics. It calls the Syracuse platform's vital aims limited to public control of money and utilities plus land value taxes, labeling other planks as foreign to the core. It notes the nominated ticket lacks labor representation and questions the movement's durability and national appeal.
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New York Tribune
Henry Groven
the Tribune
George
Syracuse
Grovge
Grorce
Victor A. Wilder
Wall Street
P. F. Cummins
Blaine
Dennis C. Freeny
United Labor Party
Groven
New York City
The American Trotting Horse as Seen by a London Journal
A London notice of Hiram Wooprurrs Trotting Horse of America praises the American trotter yet laments lost utility in road, coach, and farm work. It notes speed gains from better tracks and sulkies, counts more horses capable of sub 2 20 miles, and warns of “trotting machines” replacing practicality.
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London Journal
Hiram Wooprorr
America
Hiram Wooprurr
Hiram Woorrurr
Peerless
Dart
Wooprurf
Does Protection Protect Our Tariff Burden on Common Goods
The piece argues tariffs on common items like oilcloth nails screws glass and stockings raise house costs. It notes high duties force shoppers to pay much more, while wages in protected industries remain low. It cites tobacco and whiskey taxes cover debts, and calls for shifting away from protection to benefit workers and prices.
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United States
Great Britain
The American Horse and Its Breeding Crisis
An intelligent writer laments the lack of a fixed American horse type. He condemns speed focused breeding, notes common flaws, praises pure-blood draughts, and suggests licensing stock horses or reviving distinct bloodlines to create a unified breed and public benefit.
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Middle and Eastern States
America
England
France
Arabia
Messenger boy returns with fine London mission record
No. 1222, a Mutual District messenger, traveled four days to London to deliver Lyceum Theatre souvenirs. He sailed from Liverpool on the Royal Mail steamer to catch the Germanic at Queenstown and returned with signed tickets. FRANK RICHMOND lauded him before 20,000 fans as the era's improved product of American civilization.
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Falo Brin
Bucephalus, Jr
Colonel Copy
King Kalakaua's Hawaii Myth Book Headlines Monarchy
The text announces King Kalakaua wrote a book on Hawaiian myths and suggests it will present an elaborate treatment of monarchical power in the Sandwich Islands. It frames the work as a major source on royal authority and Hawaiian culture.
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Kalakaua
Hawaii
Sandwich Islands
Notable figures and events span the era from public library handover to fading memories
Mr. F B Perkins will turn the San Francisco Public Library over to John Vance Cheney on Nov 1. Tom Hughes plans another visit to the country. Memoir of Livingston in Macmillan's Men of Action is announced. Various notable deaths, honors, and deaths are noted alongside personal anecdotes and a church funeral scene.
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F. B. Perkins
San Francisco
John Vance Cheney
Tom” Hughes
Livingston
Macmillan
Martha McFadden
Pittsburg
John Alden
Lionel Sackville West
Washington
Knole
Lord Sackville
M. Raffray
Zanzibar
Stanley
Bishop Chatard
Indianapolis
Robert Harlan
Cincinnati
Saratoga
Ohio
Fred Douglass
Wheeler
Tna Life Insurance Company
Hartford
Conn
Bartlett
California
Boston Notes on Mortality and Civic Life
A Boston writer observes weekly mortality figures show fewer deaths than last week though rates stay high. He notes crowds thinning city life, reflects on charity outings for alley tenement children, and recounts visiting Munkacsy at Horticultural Hall. He ends with reflections on quotations and an old friend’s funeral.
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Boston
Horticultural Hall
Munkacsy
Pontius Pilate
Heaven
Chamberlain Faces Possible Independent Flight
The Y Herald notes Mr Joseph Chamberlain may pursue a personal action against the British cabinet for abandonment. It would be a distressing sight if he ends up flocking by himself, a line echoing Dundreary.
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Joseph Chamberlain
Dundreary
Henry George platform at Syracuse targets wealth redistribution
The Providence Journal notes Henry George's Syracuse platform aims to reverse biblical charity by taking from the affluent to give to the poor, but asserts property owners are more numerous and capable than the shiftless.
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Henry George
Syracuse
Providence Journal
Georgeites Demand Land Seizure Without Compensation
The Georgeites call present land ownership unjust and say they would confiscate it without compensation if needed. Mr. George resists backing and fills his stance with high political rhetoric, but only the principle of taking the land is clear while the method remains undecided.
Virtuous Wall Street Defends Its Reputation
The New York Graphic argues against condemning Wall Street as corrupt and unfair. It claims the exchange has as few rascals as any large business body and notes that publicity inflates the perceived evils.
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Wall Street
Stock Exchange
All
N. Y
A Political Paradox on Tax Shifts and Centralization
The piece condemns shifting all taxes to land and creating a vast government bureaucracy of half a million officials. It argues such centralization clashes with the republican ideal of limited government and endangers free government. It notes labor platform complaints may gain sympathy but widespread dissent will follow.
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Labor
N. Y. World
Dem
Literary notes and publications announced this season
The publisher Routledge & Sons will issue Caldecott in a complete works set and the Last Graphic Pictures in a similar format. Scribner's adds Thackeray letters with anecdotes by Miss Kate Perry and Our Darlings a Christmas juvenile novel with color illustrations. E H House contributes a Japanese life story with a rich romance and a Virginia lawyer writes of an engineer's damages case. Bouton plans a bibliography of English theatrical literature by Lowe.
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Caldecott
George Routledge & Sons
Thackeray
Scribner’s
Kate Perry
Routledge & Sons
E. H. House
Japan
Scribner's
Virginia
A. ©. Gordon
We Both Take Tips From Central Park Beggar
A waiter and a well tipped resident collaborate in a joke on the public. The beggar woman and the apartment dweller exchange a marked coin, exposing the scheme and ending with the remark we both take tips. She keeps tipping and he keeps serving.
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Central Park
Third Avenue
Bar Harbor Beauties of a Quiet Season
Bar Harbor shows fewer striking beauties than Newport but a picturesque atmosphere pervades the harbor. Women under awnings craft artful needlework while lounging. graceful couples and young men in silk knickerbockers with sashes pose as colorful landscape elements and potential artistic subjects.
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Bar Harbor
Newport
Florist Patrick McCarthy Missing in Biddeford Me
Patrick McCarthy a well known Biddeford florist has disappeared leaving friends fearing foul play and possible suicide. Knoxville population tallies 36707 amid scattered notes on local crime and court actions.
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Patrick McCarthy
Biddeford
Knoxville
Tenn
Express
Bennett
Pocaletto
Ind
Omaha National Bank
Clark & Larrabee’s Bank
Butte
Supreme Court of Foresters
Montreal
September Magazines Review in The American
The American Magazine offers varied intel lectual fare with two standout pieces on Our New Navy and The Military System of Canada. Lt Hughes critiques the armored status of new steel cruisers while J McDonald Oxley surveys Canadian militias and mobilization, noting potential army strength and cadet selection contrasts with West Point.
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Canada
W. S. Hughes
United States Navy
Chicago
Boston
Atlanta
Dolphin
Congress
Hughes
Austria
Italy
Germany
Russia
France
England
J. McDonald Oxley
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific
Royal Military College
Kingston
West Point
Canadian Military Gazette
Anderson
Richard Calf
Louisiana
Henry W. Austin
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Critic praises Phillips Brooks as foremost pulpit orator
The September issue of The Homiletic Review lauds Phillips Brooks as America’s leading Episcopal pulpit figure, noting his intellect and vigor, while critiquing some stylistic and interpretive aspects. It contrasts his robust mind with moments of sentimentality and discusses related articles in the same number.
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Phillips Brooks
Episcopal Church
Inerica
Ileary Ward Beocher
Brooks
Fr. W. Robertson
Robertson
Mr. Brooks
God
Dr. Brooks
Flo
Montaigne
Paris
Gascony
T. T. Eaton
University of Berlin
J. H. W. Stuckerberg
E. Pr. Thwing
Odds and Ends from Many Lands and Times
Quaint items mix travel, law, and daily life from 1905. A Georgia patient survives on nitroglycerine while a Maryland man is urged for postmastership. Notes on Long Island, Calaveras trees, a Jacob Sharp bribery case, and a mule and hog explosive mishap appear alongside quips from Georgia to Detroit and a London hospital obituary.
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Georgia
Dance
Maryland
New York
George
Manuel Barriant
Matamoras
Mex
Lake Huron
Bay City
Calaveras County
Cal
Somma
Lombardy
Italy
Potter
Jacob Sharp
Ludlow Street
Crestline
Foraker
Columbus
Bis
Vermont
Russell House
Detroit
Michael Jeffers
East Saginaw
W. O. Allen
Plymouth
Grover Cleveland
United States
Atlanta
The Exile's Lament Over Home Rule Mania
A lyrical critique of British leaders and Irish Home Rule fervor. The speaker mocks allies and opponents, naming Balfour, Parnell, Gladstone, Salisbury, and others while imagining a chaotic political spectacle and Ireland pursuing independence. The piece blends satire with political tension and national spectacle.
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ST Publishing Company
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Ernest F. Brournham
Doston West
THE
Liberals
NEW Party
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Curbstone
Jimmy
Saturday Review
University of Oxford
J. W. Bouton
Robert W. Lowe
Earlest Times
September
the American
the Homiletic Review
Plato
Concord
Mass
Henry Simpson
Henderson
Simpson
Henderson Journal
London
Peoria Transcript
James
N. Y. Sun
Boodie
Parnell
Tim Healy
Trevelyan
Randolpha
Ministry
Chamberlain
Salisbury
Hartington
Harcourt
Cadogan
Tyndall
Ireland
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